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Arland Thornton

Reading History Sideways

The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

344 pages, 2 maps  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: Population and Development Series

Cloth $39.00

ISBN: 9780226798608   Published May 2005

Acknowledgments
Part One - Introduction and Approaches
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Models, Data, and Methods
Part Two - Influence on Family Scholars
3. Views of Changes in Family Life from Reading History Sideways
4. The Fertility Decline in Northwest Europe
5. Changes in Family Life in the Northwest European Historical Record
6. The Scholarly Legacy
7. The Legacy of Data
Part Three - Influence on Individual and Community Actors
8. Developmental Idealism
9. Freedom, Equality, and Consent in Northwest European Family Relationships
10. Fighting Barbarism in the United States
11. Government Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe
12. Social and Economic Pathways of Influence outside Northwest Europe
13. The Power of Developmental Thinking
Postscript: Dealing with the Language of the Developmental Paradigm
References
Index
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